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Category Archives: Literature
Larry McMurtry’s Struggle Against Anti-Gentile Prejudice
Here’s an excerpt from the new biography, Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty: She [McMurtry’s literary agent Dorothea Oppenheimer] gave [Editor Michael Korda] an earful about how East Coast reviewers just didn’t get McMurtry though to be fair he … Continue reading
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The Orwellian Life
Colin Burrow writes in the Oct. 5, 2023 issue of the LROB: The Orwellian person seeks surgically to separate himself from every person who materially or emotionally supports him, but then finds he can’t actually live that way. You leave … Continue reading
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Wellness by Nathan Hill
Daphne Merkin writes for The Atlantic: A Worthy Heir to David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon In Wellness, Nathan Hill recounts a love story, but also much, much more. …That Nathan Hill comes charging onto this depleted fictional scene with … Continue reading
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Annie Ernaux – The Latest Winner Of The Nobel Prize For Literature (11-16-22)
This low streaming quality video was shot on my Oppo A15 on my cheap Aussie phone plan (80GBs of data for $40 a month).
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NYRB: ‘The Illusion of the First Person’
In Merve Emre’s essay in the Nov. 3, 2022 edition of the New York Review of Books, she claims that the individual is a fiction. Now, obviously, the individual is never only an individual. They have other identities. But Emre’s … Continue reading
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